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out comparing it with actual specimens of the allied species. 

 Recently, I have found the original specimens and am able 

 to fix the species as definitely as possible. It is apparently 

 rare for I have not found it in Illinois nor in the miscel- 

 laneous specimens in the U. S. National Museum collections. 

 In the U. S. National Museum collections, however, I have 

 found the following type specimens from which the follow- 

 ing notes were made. One tagmounted male type specimen 

 labelled " Cosmocoma elegans Howard MS. (T) Type No. 

 2621, U. S. N. M. No. 722*'. Proctotrypid or 3-spotted Ker- 

 mes. Iss. Oct. 16, '80." Of this specimen, only the abdo- 

 men, a leg and a pair of wings remain. A fore wing and a 

 posterior wing were removed and mounted in balsam ( = 

 Hym. slide 116, U. S. National Museum) and these notes 

 made : Fore wings with the longest marginal cilia three- 

 fourths as long as the greatest wing width, and with the dis- 

 cal cilia in about eighteen longitudinal lines across the great- 

 est wing width, each cilium long or moderately long, the 

 blade uniformly ciliate ; wing hyaline ; marginal cilia long. 

 Posterior wing maculate with dusky, linear but not very nar- 

 row, the discal ciliation confined to the cilia along the edge, 

 the line along the cephalic edge becoming paired distad, that 

 of the caudal margin single. Tarsi 4'jointed, the proximal 

 joint nearly as long as the other three united. Abdomen 

 shining. 



And a second tagmounted type male specimen labelled 

 ''^ Cosmocoma I^o^zx^vl K^hva. 6^. Cosmocoma elegans Ho- 

 ward MS. (T). Type No. 2621, U. S. N. M. No. 122^. 

 Proctotrypid or 3-spotted Kermes. Iss. Oct. 16, '80." The 

 following notes : Body smooth, shining, without apparent 

 sculpture, except on mesoscutum where there are fine lines 

 and figures. Scutellum with a line of minute punctures 

 across its distal two-thirds. Antennas with the proximal and 

 ninth funicle joints subequal, shortest, somewhat longer than 

 the short scape ; funicle joints 2 to 8 subequal, longest, 

 cylindrical oval, a third longer than the proximal joint ; joints 

 10 and 11 (club) subequal, more slender, a fourth shorter 

 than joint 2 of the funicle. Pedicel globular but longer than 



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